them • kakegurui x female reader

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walking down the hallway to the gambling dens, you start to see people in the hallways.
it seems after everyone hurried out of class, they went here or to the main room, or on the school's outdoor grounds.

some students were close to tears, others rolling dice on the floor with a determined look in their eyes, some two seconds from a mental breakdown, and other looking around for possible targets.

yumeko had vanished again, but you felt as if she'd show up soon enough.

"hello." you say, trying to start a conversation with one of the determined looking girls. honestly, she looked more bored than determined.

she was the same height as you, with blonde hair that were tied in two casual pigtails by black ribbons. she had her arms crossed and was glaring at the floor as if she had just been in a confrontation, but she didn't look upset, and she wasn't wearing a housepet tag like several of the others were.

"hey." she responded unenthusiasticaly, picking up her backpack and throwing it on one hip.

"i was just leaving." she informed you, sighing again.

"oh- why?"

the girl gestured to one of the rooms, where people- no, someone, seemed to be yelling at someone else.

"that den used to be mine, but then i lost it after a gamble. i want to get it back and it should be easy, but the damn owner of it won't gamble with me. she knows she won't be able to win, so she just avoids a gamble and sends me back out. i don't really feel like bothering with any other dens today, so i'm just going to eat my snack somewhere else."

"huh. that's low of her, to refuse to gamble cause she knows she'll loose her den."

the girl nodded, then held out her hand for you to shake. "i'm mary- mary saotome."

"y/n, pleased to meet you." you shook her hand, feeling a little formal, like your adopted father when he shook the hand of one of his company's ally's owner's hands.

"feel free to come with me if you like, my best friend- well.. girlfr- well.. my friend ririka is at the student council meeting and my other friend yumeko is out bothering someone to gamble with her."

"you're friends with yumeko? damn- if she calls you, don't tell her i'm here."

"huh?" mary tilted her head slightly, raising a brow.

"she got a little.." you try to find the word.

"excited, annoying, horny, or a mixture of all three." mary said, shrugging and raising a hand, beginning to walk down the hall, but making sure you were following.

"she gets like that all the time, if you leave she'll calm down for the most part."

"i assumed as much, but then she stalked me to my math class and tried to sacrifice her wrists."

mary raised an eyebrow, then shrugged again. "hm. she's done that a few times, but only to people she deemed important.. yumeko must think you're special."

you furrowed your brow, but blushed slightly and looked away. "guess her scanner's broken or something- i'm really not that good.."

"she'd never been wrong before. well.. not with people, once she tried out lemon and peanut butter and said she had an instinct it would take good."

mary stuck the tip of her tongue back and rolled her eyes. "i'm never trusting her with dinner preparations ever again. although.. nowadays i guess ririka cooks.."

the blonde was lost in thoughts, but she continued walking until the two of you ended up outside, where she sat down on a picnic bench and opened her backpack.